Gaming is making waves in the Philippines and in a recent study, the Philippines ranked 7th best-performing country in the World for Esports earnings.
With players earning the equivalent of 12 times the net annual average salary, the Philippines showed average player earnings exceeding $178,045.60.ย ย The game producing the highest earnings is Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.
Ranking #1 is Jordan and Malaysia earn 24 times their respective net annual salary to equal their average player earnings.ย Jordan has higher average player earnings (โฌ723,340.21) and net annual salary (โฌ30,745.18) than Malaysia with โฌ557,516.16 and โฌ23,463.37 respectively.ย Both of their highest-paid games are Dota 2. Malaysia currently ranks 28th in the Fifae Nations series, while Jordan does not appear on the scoreboard.
Dota 2 occupies 50% of the top ten results. This MMORPG is featured in multiple esports tournaments, the most popular being โThe Internationalโ hosted by Valve where the prize pool is up to $47.73 million, hence its occupancy in the top six of these results.